FWIW, you might want to put some safeguards in there so that you
don't try to inadvertently kill the backend that's running that
function... unfortunately I don't think there's a built-in function
to tell you the PID of the backend you're connected to; if you're
connecting via TCP you could use inet_client_addr() and
inet_client_port(), but that won't work if you're using the socket to
connect.

On Apr 5, 2007, at 6:23 AM, Stuart Bishop wrote:

> Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (1) something (still not sure what --- Martin and Mark, I'd
>>> really like
>>> to know) was issuing random SIGTERMs to various postgres processes
>>> including autovacuum.
>>>
>>
>> This may be a misfeature in our test harness - I'll ask Stuart
>> Bishop to
>> comment.
>
> After a test is run, the test harness kills any outstanding
> connections so
> we can drop the test database. Without this, a failing test could
> leave open
> connections dangling causing the drop database to block.
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _killall_backends(text)
> RETURNS Boolean AS $$
> import os
> from signal import SIGTERM
>
> plan = plpy.prepare(
> "SELECT procpid FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE datname=$1",
> ['text']
> )
> success = True
> for row in plpy.execute(plan, args):
> try:
> plpy.info("Killing %d" % row['procpid'])
> os.kill(row['procpid'], SIGTERM)
> except OSError:
> success = False
>
> return success
> $$ LANGUAGE plpythonu;
>
> --
> Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@canonical.com> http://
> www.canonical.com/
> Canonical Ltd. http://www.ubuntu.com/
>

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